Eminem confirms that he has changed a lot since he launched himself into the mainstream two years ago. “Fame hit me like a ton of bricks,” he explains in The Mirror. “I was pulled in every direction. I got caught up in the drinking and the drugs, the fighting and just wilding out. I’m proud of myself for pulling through all that and my criminal cases, my divorce. If I was still on drugs and living the life I lived three years ago, I’d be a failure.”